Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she simply ignored him as she always had and began to practise with the yellow-haired vibrancer who 'd been with Jeopardy in Mandru 's salon on the morning Lucien had met the master . |
| 2 | Detective Sergeant Burgess went off to report to his Superintendent , and Redpath , who 'd been on duty since midnight , decided to try for a few hours ' sleep . |
| 3 | ‘ I had about 700 quid and I had some mates who 'd been in Clock DVA , the Sheffield band . |
| 4 | A trip to London was planned and they were expecting two visits — one from an elderly relative who 'd been in touch after receiving a holiday postcard and another from two people who used to live in the flat upstairs and had telephoned asking if they could call by . |
| 5 | Once in a while she went to a social club for air pilots who 'd been in hospital . |
| 6 | Here was someone who had been through hell , but still could forgive the bombers , while pleading with them to realise the tragedy they were causing . |
| 7 | They had served deaf people faithfully and with devotion for more than a century and were correctly described in the same editorial as " dedicated men , universal guides philosopher , and friends who had been on call at every hour of the day . |
| 8 | So I turned on the TV to find the news , but they had n't found out who had been on board yet |
| 9 | You will remember that when we last spoke you said the Ramsbum , Gooseneck business was impossible , and that was even before I had met my colleague Blitherdick , the wine waiter who had been on holiday when I arrived . |
| 10 | NHL president John Ziegler announced the players , who had been on strike since April 1 , had accepted a final offer and would return to work this weekend . |
| 11 | NHL president John Ziegler announced the players , who had been on strike since April 1 , had accepted a final offer and would return to work this weekend . |
| 12 | ‘ By an odd coincidence only 8% of those who had been on strike got increases while 92% of those who had worked during the strike got increases ’ . |
| 13 | The strike was a show of solidarity with 3,500 workers in sherry production who had been on strike since the beginning of the month over pension rights . |
| 14 | He had watched the effect that team spirit had had on the young people who had been on Operation Drake . |
| 15 | He imagined with pleasure the bollocking that would be administered to the men who had been on duty the previous night . |
| 16 | There was no sign of the two policemen who had been on duty at the cordon . |
| 17 | He presumed those men who had been on duty had all gone in the helicopter to help the others . |
| 18 | The death of a remand prisoner was confirmed on April 3 and on April 5 a prison officer who had been on duty on April 1 died of a heart attack . |
| 19 | Early on the following day a Lithuanian who had been on duty alone at a nearby post was found shot dead in what some reports suggested might have been revenge for the death of the Byelorussian . |
| 20 | Of about 100 prisoners who had been on hunger strike since May 1 [ see p. 38179 ] protesting at the government 's alleged failure to free all political prisoners , 17 who were still fasting began accepting food in the days after Mandela appealed to them to abandon the fast , on June 6 . |
| 21 | Peter Boardman , who had been at School between 1956 and 1969 , was one of the best-known names in British mountaineering at this period . |
| 22 | Another fifty-four who had been at state schools were also Oxbridge graduates . |
| 23 | Miss Fogerty had never been so happy as she was now , living with Dorothy and next door to another old friend , Isobel Shoosmith , who had been at college with her years before . |
| 24 | Before long though , Harold meets his future wife Isobel , who had been at college with Agnes Fogerty , and they live happily ever after . |
| 25 | Edward , an infrequent attender , complained that he was at a disadvantage , having been to a public school ; the others , who had been to state schools had unfair practice at this sort of thing . |
| 26 | Mark 's face brightened for he remembered who Miss Broome was — a nice-looking youngish woman who had been to church the last two or three Sundays . |
| 27 | I knew people who had been to prison and they told me , ‘ It 's really bad in there , it 's hard . |
| 28 | To tell you the truth , before I went to prison I used to meet people who had been to prison and I did n't want to talk to them because I thought they were funny . |
| 29 | Even as the company got bigger , the familial atmosphere on which Virgin had been built in the early Seventies stayed strong , a flame that was kept alight by those who had been with Virgin since the earliest days , until it became a myth , self-perpetuating and strong enough to touch any newcomer to the organisation , strong enough to have even Richard Branson in its grip . |
| 30 | This meant in effect that Aung San Suu Kyi , the country 's main opposition leader who had been under house arrest since July 1989 , was removed as the party 's secretary general . |